Synopsis
Robert Bresson’s incomparable tale of crime and redemption follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsion grows, however, so too does his fear that his luck is about to run out. Tautly choreographed and crafted in Bresson’s inimitable style, Pickpocket reveals a master director at the height of his powers.
Cast
| Michel | Martin LaSalle |
| Jeanne | Marika Green |
| Jacques | Pierre Leymarie |
| Mother | Dolly Scal |
| Police inspector | Jean Pélégri |
Credits
| Director | Robert Bresson |
| Screenplay | Robert Bresson |
| Cinematography | Léonce-Henri Burel |
| Producer | Agnès Delahaie |
| Editing | Raymond Lamy |
| Production Design | Pierre Charbonnier |
| Sound | Antoine Archimbaud |
| Music from the opera Atys by | Jean-Baptiste Lully |
| Conducted by | Marc Lanjean |
| Arrangement by | Fernand Oubradous |
| Production manager | Michel Choquet |
| Pickpocket consultant | Kassagi |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt
- New video introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader
- The Models of “Pickpocket,” a 2003 documentary by filmmaker Babette Mangolte, featuring actors from the film
- A 1960 interview with Bresson, from the French television program Cinépanorama
- Q&A on Pickpocket, with actress Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris fielding questions at a 2000 screening of the film
- Footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles
- Original theatrical trailer
- New essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana
- New and improved English subtitle translation
From the Current
Pickpocket:
Robert Bresson—Hidden in Plain Sight
by
Nov 7, 2005
I have an unusually easy way of remembering when I first became fascinated by Robert Bresson’s films. Pickpocket was the first one I saw, at the old Orson Welles Theater, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in my late teens; it was also the first movie I saw on LSD. (Even on acid, I was never one...
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